The Cats and Dogs Are Safe Now

She had a wirehaired Pointer.

She had kept the dog for over a year and finally did the deed when it killed neighbors birds and she paid for the damage done by her dog.
Have had pointers, but never had to kill them. Also had Irish Setters. Shannon was a great dog, but we had to take action after we moved back to Tennessee, and had chickens, which was too much for her, right there on top of the hill, so she killed a few. We tried everything, including beating with one of the dead chickens. Dad finally broke her from the birds. We had electrified fencer for the cattle, the kind that not only kept cows and bulls off the fence, but cut down any weeds or vines getting within arc range. He ran a line across the yard between the house and the chicken coop, and hung one of her freshly killed hens using wire wrapped to hot fencer line. This is one of those hard core fencers, that teaches hunter to unload their shotguns before crossing, or taking their life in their hands. If you weren't watching and pissed on the fence post and hit the wire, you didn't stop pissing til you were empty laying on the ground with piss all over you, stuff country boys and country hunters understand. When Shannan bit the bird, fire literally arced between her teeth, making her clamp down and unable to let go for several pulses before knocking her to the ground. That was the last chicken she went to bite, as these birds now bit back, hard! Lesson learned.
 
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Have had pointers, but never had to kill them. Also had Irish Setters. Shannon was a great dog, but we had to take action after we moved back to Tennessee, and had chickens, which was too much for her, right there on top of the hill, so she killed a few. We tried everything, including beating with one of the dead chickens. Dad finally broke her from the birds. We had electrified fencer for the cattle, the kind that not only kept cows and bulls off the fence, but cut down any weeds or vines getting within arc range. He ran a line across the yard between the house and the chicken coop, and hung one of her freshly killed hens using wire wrapped to hot fencer line. This is one of those hard core fencers, that teaches hunter to unload their shotguns before crossing, or taking their life in their hands. If you were watching and pissed on the fence post and hit the wire, you didn't stop pissing til you were empty laying on the ground with piss all over you, stuff country boys and country hunters understand. When Shannan bit the bird, fire literally arced between her teeth, making her clamp down and unable to let go for several pulses before knocking her to the ground. That was the last chicken she went to bite, as these birds now bit back, hard! Lesson learned.
Kristi Noem said in her state it is legal to kill dogs that harm humans or birds or other animals. What does it cost to do it as you spoke of doing it??
 
Kristi Noem said in her state it is legal to kill dogs that harm humans or birds or other animals. What does it cost to do it as you spoke of doing it??
We had the fencer and fencing wire, because we had the cows, otherwise you would be rounding up cattle, usually in the worst weather and other people had crops and didn't want to have deal with them. So, it cost us nothing.

In actuality, if Shannon had been roaming a quarter mile (nearest farmer neighbor) and killing other people's chickens, dad, or my brother (as it was his dog) would have shot the dog, too. If somebody else shot her chasing or killing chickens at their chicken coop (as was their right), and called us (as any neighbor would), dad would have undoubtedly have asked how much we owed for the chickens. And, asked if they took care of it or did we need to come pick her up and bury her. In the country, you keep your animals on your property, or you are responsible and everybody knows it, and thats just the way it is. And a dog that gets a taste for chickens is, in fact, hard to break.

Of course Shannon wasn't worth a damn as bird dog after the "chicken on the fencer episode", though still great as a squirrel dog, or even running with the coon hounds, and great pet that let us know if anybody came on the hilltop.
 
We had the fencer and fencing wire, because we had the cows, otherwise you would be rounding up cattle, usually in the worst weather and other people had crops and didn't want to have deal with them. So, it cost us nothing.

In actuality, if Shannon had been roaming a quarter mile (nearest farmer neighbor) and killing other people's chickens, dad, or my brother (as it was his dog) would have shot the dog, too. If somebody else shot her chasing or killing chickens at their chicken coop (as was their right), and called us (as any neighbor would), dad would have undoubtedly have asked how much we owed for the chickens. And, asked if they took care of it or did we need to come pick her up and bury her. In the country, you keep your animals on your property, or you are responsible and everybody knows it, and thats just the way it is. And a dog that gets a taste for chickens is, in fact, hard to break.

Of course Shannon wasn't worth a damn as bird dog after the "chicken on the fencer episode", though still great as a squirrel dog, or even running with the coon hounds, and great pet that let us know if anybody came on the hilltop.
Without Dogs, Hunters Wouldn't Have Survived Much Longer

Prehistorically, before the Indo-European languages split up, dog meant "pointer." It is related to Latin digitus, "finger," and the Greek we get paradigm from, "what you would point to as the controlling factor of a theory."
 
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Have had pointers, but never had to kill them. Also had Irish Setters. Shannon was a great dog, but we had to take action after we moved back to Tennessee, and had chickens, which was too much for her, right there on top of the hill, so she killed a few. We tried everything, including beating with one of the dead chickens. Dad finally broke her from the birds. We had electrified fencer for the cattle, the kind that not only kept cows and bulls off the fence, but cut down any weeds or vines getting within arc range. He ran a line across the yard between the house and the chicken coop, and hung one of her freshly killed hens using wire wrapped to hot fencer line. This is one of those hard core fencers, that teaches hunter to unload their shotguns before crossing, or taking their life in their hands. If you weren't watching and pissed on the fence post and hit the wire, you didn't stop pissing til you were empty laying on the ground with piss all over you, stuff country boys and country hunters understand. When Shannan bit the bird, fire literally arced between her teeth, making her clamp down and unable to let go for several pulses before knocking her to the ground. That was the last chicken she went to bite, as these birds now bit back, hard! Lesson learned.
When I was a teen, I was bit by a Wirehaired dog. It chased after me riding on my bicycle. I never got close to it again.
 

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